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Re: process table shows already killed processes

> And, at last, I take a look into the process table:
>
>         /home/admin[5]$ ps -ef
>              UID    PID   PPID TTY     STIME COMMAND
>           system   1003      1  -1  13:11:17 /usr/local/sbin/syslogd.exe
>         administ   1006   1006  -1  13:11:26 /usr/bin/tcsh.exe
>         administ   1018   1006  -1  13:15:04 /usr/bin/ps
>
> ???The syslogd is still in the table??? Ok, next try:
>
>         /home/admin[6]$ ps -ef
>              UID    PID   PPID TTY     STIME COMMAND
>         administ   1006   1006  -1  13:11:26 /usr/bin/tcsh.exe
>         administ   1019   1006  -1  13:16:30 /usr/bin/ps
>
> Oh, on the second try, the already killed processes are erased
> from the table! This behaviour is 100% reproducable.

is it time dependent?

In other words is it reproducable with a different scheduling between none,
first and second "ps -ef" call?

Regards,
Stipe

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Stipe Tolj <tolj@uni-duesseldorf.de>

Cygwin Porting Project -- "We build UNIX on top of Windows"
http://www.student.uni-koeln.de/cygwin/

Department of Economical Computer Science
University of Cologne, Germany